Growing Up In Nash Mills

A Memory of Nash Mills.

My family moved to Nash Mills in 1946/1947 my dad run the Coop which was in Belswains Lane next to the George pub the shop was the ground floor of a house and we lived upstairs my brother and I attended Nash mills school the headmaster was called Mr Shackleton if I remember correctly . I can recall having some sort of fete I dressed as a doll in a box and won first prize my dad was put in some stocks outside the three tuns pub I don't know what was thrown at him . My mum was a keen member of the women's institute that used to meet in the village hall . When at school I remember getting told into trouble for going through the hedge into Easts saw mills and the horrible toilets , every year we had to dance round the maypole . We left there as my. dad moved shops and ran the Coop in the Queens Sq Adeyfield and we lived in the flat above